Amy Eldridge: Providing Hope and Healing to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children

In this episode, Amy Eldridge, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Love Without Boundaries, talks about her inspiring work providing hope and healing to orphaned and vulnerable children.

Amy founded Love Without Boundaries in 2003 and has led efforts to create and implement life-changing projects for orphaned and impoverished children in multiple countries. Amy believes firmly that passionate and committed people have the power to change the world and sees a key part of her job as supporting and encouraging volunteers around the globe to manage Love Without Boundaries’ many program areas. Amy is the author of The Heart of an Orphan, which chronicles how one tiny baby with heart disease inspired a movement to help vulnerable children worldwide.

Love Without Boundaries (LWB) is an authentic international charity that provides hope and healing to orphaned and vulnerable children, and their underserved communities, through its education, nutrition, medical, and foster care programs.

Medical: LWB provides medical services to children by arranging lifesaving heart surgeries and other operations at pediatric hospitals in China, Cambodia, India, and Uganda, and by sending surgery teams to host countries in order to operate on children in need. They also operate specialized healing homes which provide care to orphaned and abandoned children born with medical needs.

Education: LWB currently sponsors the education of orphaned and rural children and teens from preschool through college. Their Believe in Me schools are built both in orphanages and in rural villages to provide learning opportunities to children who otherwise would not receive an education. Their general education fund is used to expand their programs as well as to build new schools, renovate existing schools, purchase supplies, provide teacher training and other education-related needs.

Nutrition: LWB provides quality nutrition to both orphaned and rural children through their school programs and through their specialty formula fund. They also have a sustainable nutrition program in Cambodia with school gardens.

Foster Care: LWB currently has successful foster care programs in China, Uganda, India, and Cambodia. In Cambodia, they provide foster care for both orphaned children as well as children who have suffered the trauma of human trafficking and abuse. LWB monitors their programs very carefully with local managers who visit the children and can quickly provide extra nutrition, medical care or other supplies as needed.

Saving our first life: LWB began in 2003 to help save the life of one tiny boy in China. Following his successful heart surgery, we realized that nothing is impossible when passionate and dedicated people come together to impact the lives of children.

Our model: From the very beginning of LWB, we’ve worked in partnership with local citizens on the ground to change the lives of vulnerable children. Each project around the globe is run by people who grew up in-country, as the best solutions to the challenges children face are developed in the local community.

To learn more, visit www.lovewithoutboundaries.com